District 9: The Movie. Your views.

[halleyelec 10]

Well, I was looking forward to this film for quite some time. My type of film and it has a new aspect for me, being filmed in S.A (and I've never watched a film from there).

I was actually suprised that I was dissapointed with it. Don't get me wrong, the storyline was good, but it just had something about it that bored me. maybe it was the filming, a bit like Cloverfield.

One more thing.......I'd did frustrate me how many times the lead character said Fu*k. He just sounded like a scouser! Weird!

[froggyluv 2136]

I'm always sceptical of those "Docu-movies" that usually have the pacing of a lethargic sloth, and generally hang on one note for the entire picture. This one managed to actually have some nice action, and some pretty intersting characters. The aliens were just funny, and I liked the way they broke away from the alien-genre sterotype of " Where do you come from" and "do you mean us harm?". Instead, it went to a place that seems far more realistic: Predjudice; Exploitation, and Beauracracy right from the get-go.

Some holes in there for sure, but overall I thought it one of the better movies that I've seen in some time.

[walker 0]

Hi all

Good film with a good story line; well worth watching, nuff said.

Kind Regards walker

[nzdfcrash 33]

Films are there to entertain and district 9 entertained me, good watch overall

[Iroquois Pliskin 0]

Great FX, acting; bullshit story.

[sparks50 0]

In my opinion, the movie falls together in the second half into a generic and not particularly well done action movie.

The first half was somewhat good with the mockumentary style though, but the main character was pretty annoying.

[riffleman 20]

Iam going to watch this movie , it is based on south africa.

[kernriver 4]

Great movie, but i'm biased because i love SF.

[Leopardi 0]

I thought it was kind of boring... bad and weird movie overall.

[kavoven 4]

I didn't get what this film really is. Is it an action SF film? Because the trailer made some scenes look like they came from a horror movie or something. And I even thought Indiana Jones 4 was scary...:blues:

[sparks50 0]

Its not scary at all really, but the aliens wouldn't win any miss universe competitions. The first half is a mockumentary, then it slips into a generic action movie halfway.

[Colossus 2]

I liked the movie and I especially like it was filmed in South Africa rather then anywhere else. That everyone hates the aliens and have different zones and laws for the aliens, which is discriminating, brings out the dark irony that South Africa was once under apartheid. It's not the best movie of this year though, it just have an original twist to it.

Edited September 12, 2009 by colossus

[max power 21]

I liked it.

He's not really saying 'fuck'. He's swearing in Afrikaans. He's saying 'Fokken kak', which means 'fucking shit'.

[cjsoques 0]

yeah the swearing was totally over the top and a little silly...but the movie itself was amazing and I loved it, one of the best movies ever if it ididn't include the unnecessary swearing I hate how people feel the need to do that

[kavoven 4]

That was some weird kind of film...luckily the swearing (I guess its just fuck in the english version?) was translated with some variations... ;)

I liked the first half very much with this kind of docu style but the second half was partly ridiculous. Still, it was entertaining :)

[STALKERGB 6]

Personally i thought the movie was very well done.

The use of South Africa rather than the typical US setting created a reasonably credible plot background for the film (if you can call the inclusion of aliens to be reasonable in any form anyway).

It also created a nice parrallel between current human tensions (genrally due to colour or religion) showing the mistrust and lack of understanding each side has regarding the other. The "No Aliens" signs are also a nice parrallel to events such as the aparthied where similar signs would have been in place for coloured citizens.

The relationship created between the lead human and lead prawn again helps to show these racial tensions where to begin with both follow the standard line of mistrust and ignorance towards the other. Once Wikus slowly mutates towards complete "prawness" the friendship the two strike up is a genuinely believeable one (either through the "an enemy of my enemy is a friend" or the increased understanding each has towards the other).

Anyway, yeah a very good film, for the small budget very well put together.

Glad there will be a sequel :)

EDIT: lol that reads like an essay!

[Colossus 2]

A sequel? Can't say I've see anything on IMDB about that.

[STALKERGB 6]

A sequel? Can't say I've see anything on IMDB about that.

The director said that he had plans for a sequel if the first film was successful, and on a radio show he said that "there will probably be a sequel" :)

Still not definate but pretty good for me :)

[riffleman 20]

Average movie:-)

[sabre4809 0]

The story is a mix of Apartheid and the Xenophobic violence last year when the South African lower class populous attacked and drove out the immigrants for so-called increase in crime, 'job-stealing' and some other stuff. In fact most if not all of those interviews that where on where taken from interviews from the Xenophobic period. South Africa has a big 'refugee' problem with Zim mostly but Congo, Mozambique and others also contribute alot, so there's the parallel.

Alot of the English South African populous find it hilarious, half comedy, due to the slight rip-off of the Afrikaans-English(where a very Afrikaans speaking person speaks english and it comes off in a way that sounds uneducated even though they're not. There are actually alot of small things aimed at all the different languages and cultures.

[Thunderbird 0]

The 'pseudo realistic' concept of the storyline is rather interesting and kind of unusual.

It is a matter of taste and I liked this movie.

Regards,

TB

[MehMan 0]

I found it nice. At first I thought it was going to be some alien cliche film, but it's just replacing aliens for humans in the first half to avoid finger pointing and present a very real subject. But then it spins off into action and ends as a cliffhanger.

[maddogx 13]

Just got back from the cinema. I must say, I really enjoyed the movie. Kind of a "what if" scenario, as in "what if an alien ship arrived in 1982, carrying a million refugees?" Definitely a break from the average alien/scifi "OMG they're gonna kill us all!" films.

I liked the way the aliens were portrayed - the humans less so. Most of the people in the movie were borderline psychotic. The only one with any kind of character development was the main character (and perhaps the "main alien character", but less so), but even he was a nutjob. Other than that, it was very good.

Looking forward to a sequel, if there is one. :)

[belgerot 33]

I liked the concept, but the setting being a numbered district in post-apartheid South Africa I opted out. :bounce3:

[laggy 0]

The first alien movie that made me cry since E.T.

Maybe because I was a bit tipsy, but none the less: Loved it.

Laggy